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Courts & crime, 1910

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, April 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 April 1910 · page 3

The bench at the West Maitland police Court this morning was occupied by Mr. J. McKensey, P.M. DRUNKENNESS…

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General Cable News. London, April 2. Socialist Editor Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 April 1910 · page 3

for Richard Barth, editor of the socialist [?]per "Vorwaerts," of Berlin, has been [?]ed to a month's imprisonment in that [?]ty for inciting socialist to disobey the…

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Small Debts Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 April 1910 · page 3

E. P. Capper and Sons v. E. P. Nowland, claim for £2 4a 9d, goods gold and delivered. Verdict for amount claimed with 5s 9d costs…

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Police Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 April 1910 · page 2

Before Walterus Brown Esq., P.M., on Friday last, a man was fined £2 or one month for bad language and drunkeness, also £1…

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Police Changes at Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 April 1910 · page 4

Constable W, Baumgardner, of East Maitland, is doing temporary duty at Kurri, in the place of Constable Rootes, transferred to Gloucester…

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Cessnock District News. Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1910 · page 5

At the Cessnock Police Court yesterday before Mr. G. Brown, J.p., John Edward Atkinson was charged that he did, at Cessnock, on April 4, behave in a threatening…

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Kurri Police Court. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1910 · page 5

The bench at the Kurri Police court as morning was occupied by Mr. J. McKenscy. P.M. William Jack,' charged with drunkenness…

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Very Latest Cables. a Floating Federal Court. Salmon Canneries Lawlessness. London, Tuesday Afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1910 · page 5

The Federal Court at Alaska, U.S.A., is cruising 2000 miles aboard a revenue cutter, trying and sentencing prisoners who are stowed aboard until the end of the cruise. Lawlessness is…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, April 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 April 1910 · page 4

The bench at the West Maitland Police Court this morning was occupied by Mr. J. McKensey, P.M. STEALING A PAIR OF BOOTS…

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Murder Suspect Acquitted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 April 1910 · page 3

Mary Kelleher has been acquitted at Boston after an imprisonment of 15 months on a charge o poisoning her husband, three children, and two other relatives. She was exonerated through…

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East Maitland Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 4

The bench at the East Maitland Police Court this morning was occupied by Mr. J. MoKensey, P.M. Frederick Haslam, Inspector of Railways, proceeded against Arthur Moore for having thrown…

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Supposed Murder

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 2

It is reported that a young man has disappeared from the Washpool, under suspicious circumstances. He was a young Scotchman, who…

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Aberdeen Police Court. Trouble in a Railway Train

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 2

(Wednesday, April 6, before the P.M.) ARTHUR LONE was charged with having unlawfully assaulted one Ah Sam, in a railway carriage travelling towards…

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Circuit Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 4

The sittings of the Maitland Circuit Court will open at the Courthouse, East Maitland, on Tuesday next, the 12th instant. Justice Cohen will preside, and…

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Husband "Sat Upon" Co-Respondent Defiant and the Police Sent top

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 April 1910 · page 3

A husband's dilemma with a correspondent who refused to leave his house was a queer feature of a divorce case on June 14. The petitioner, Alfred T. C…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 4

At the West Maitland Police Court this morning, before Mr. A. S. Browne, J. P., Alexander Durie was fined 20s, in default seven days, for behaving in a indecent…

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Alleged Attempted Murder at Wollongong. Fight Between Police

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 5

At the Wollongong Police Court, on the 31st ult., Constable Nicholas P. Abbott was charged with having on the night of 29th March…

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Cessnock Police Court. APRIL 5, 1910. (Before Mr G. Brown, J.P.)

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 2

John Edward Atkinson (miner) was arrested on the complaint, of his father, and charged with threatening to stab with a knife Ann Atkinson (mother)…

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The Yampi Sound Tragedy. Six Aborigines Sentenced to Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 5

Interest in the Yampi Sound (W.A.) tragedy has been revived by the trial at Broome of six aborigines, for the murder of John Pritchard Jones, in January last. The whole six were…

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Charge of Assault and Robbery. a Glebe Resident's Story

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 1

Two young men, Rupert Brown and Joseph Scott, were charged at the Glebe Police Court on Tuesday with assaulting and robbing Frederick William…

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